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Animation with CSS Transitions Made Easy

There are currently two proposed additions to CSS to make animating easier and with better performance: CSS Transitions and CSS Animations. Both are unfortunately named. The later is complicated, overkill, and probably won’t be supported by non-Webkit browsers, which leaves CSS Transitions as becoming the de-facto way to natively animate on the Web. Besides reducing power-hungry Javascript-based animation, the declarative CSS Transitions opens the door for hardware acceleration and commercial quality games. iOS devices and Safari already do so for buttery smooth results, and hardware acceleration just might make it into Firefox 4.

How Do CSS Transitions Work?

Normally, when you change the value of a CSS property, it changes instantly. With CSS Transitions, they automagically animate over time. Imagine you want to have a rollover indication for links where, on hover, the link changes its background color and jigs up a bit. With CSS Transitions instead of having the effect happen instantly, it can smoothly animated. Here’s how you’d do it.

You’ll have to use the -moz and -webkit prefixes for these properties until the CSS transitions specification is finalized.

Timing functions are defined by the control points for a cubic bezier curve of the form cubic-bezier(x1,y1,x2,y2). You can see some of the named timing functions and their values below. You can also define your own timing functions:

Using CSS Transitions with jQuery

To use CSS Transitions in practice, you’ll want some helper functions to handle setting and and unsetting the transition properties, handling completion callback, and stopping animations. Towards that end, I’ve written a quick jQuery plugin that allows you to do just that (as well as deals with an annoying Firefox bug.)

Using it is simple:

Some of the work that’s come before has assumed that you need to wait for the CSS transition properties to get applied before setting the properties to be animated. This is not the case.

Demo

Problems with CSS Transitions

Better timing functions. While using a cubic bezier curve is clever—it packs a lot of variation into just four numbers—it isn’t enough. While I was able to create a basic bounce animation, not only does the spec explicitly disallow it, but I can’t control even the basic parameters of the bounce (like how fast it returns). As John Resig mentioned in a blog post, it would be nice to supply a custom Javascript timing function (although this might break the ability to do hardware acceleration). A more CSS-like solution might be to allow authors to provide an arbitrary number of control points for a series of linked quadratic or cubic bezier curves (and to not restrict the y-axis points to the 0 to 1 range). That would enable fine-grained control of timing without requiring Javascript.

Ability to layer two animations on top of each other. If I’ve started an animation moving an element to the left, and half-way through want to start animating its opacity at a different rate, things get complicated very quickly. And by complicated, I mean impossible.

Ability to register an on step handler. We can currently register a “transitionend” event handler. I’d like to be able to do the same for “transitionstep”. This would make CSS Transitions potentially much more versatile—and allow frameworks to keep innovating on top of the transitions base instead of reverting to pure Javascript animation.

How do we make sure that people won’t overuse these animation techniques? I prefer not to see websites designed with powerpoint-style effects for each page load, and don’t wish to have a browser extension to block such eyecandy effects.

I agree with you entirely on the need for better timing functions. I don’t think I’d want to go as far as a custom JS timing function, as that doesn’t seem significantly less complex than using JS to string together multiple separate transitions for the same effect. I would like more than just two bezier control points which are limited to the range 0 to 1:

Without the ability to easily specify curves which bounce, overshoot, and perhaps are even discontinous, the web will still lag behind the sort of transitions that people are increasingly used to seeing on their mobile phones.

Also keep in mind that browsers try to “batch” CSS style property changes as much as possible, so multiple changes to a property within a single code block might not work as expected. I’m currently slugging it out with the WebKit people over this.

The nearly-in-beta script.aculo.us 2.0 will automatically use a CSS transition if it thinks it’s possible, and will even convert some style changes to their “-webkit-transform” equivalents so that they can be hardware-accelerated.

How can I do it, while displaying a slide show of the posts on my website? Like i want a delay of 5 seconds between each post to slide in, i want 5 – 7 posts on the slide show. And tell me how u added this demo in your post, like which tool u used?

Another interesting observation – (forgive me if I’m repeating what we already know here!) in order to get opacity transitions hardware accelerated on the iPad and iPhone, you have to pair the opacity declaration with a transform. Both -webkit-transform: scale(1); and -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg); seemed to have the desired effect (but they do cause some subpixel misalignment issues around the edges of transformed elements, where content underneath them which should be obscured shows through.)

Yesterday I’ve tried to extend Zepto’s anim plugin to handle CSS transitions and transforms simultaneously and support all modern browsers. During doing so noticed that Opera doesn’t detect property changes if the transition is applied together with the CSS and transforms. A simple setTimeout after applying the transition first is doing wonders though.

I am new to CSS Transitions and no idea CSS Transitions so i have to conform something im making a runtime animation of a song
mean every song has its own type of animation its depends upon the songs.
in this web application in which im animating the song would be seen on video player as a video of the song diatonic accordion button would be shown in video which is pressed according to that song which i’ll got from the client in midi format.
so is it CSS Transitions is good for me is it capable of doing so

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Called an interface guru by publications like Wired and Fast Company, Aza is the co-founder of Massive Health, and was until recently Creative Lead for Firefox. Previously, he was a founding member of Mozilla Labs. Aza gave his first talk on user interface at age 10 and got hooked. At 17, he was talking and consulting internationally. Aza has founded and sold two companies, including Songza.com, a minimalist music search engine that had over a million song plays in its first week. He also creates modular cardboard furniture called Bloxes. In another life, Aza has done Dark Matter research at both Tokyo University and the University of Chicago, from where he graduated with honors in math and physics